1-Sentence-Summary: The Creative Act is an inspiring guide to making art as a consistent practice, informed by mindfulness and an open, playful way of being more so than by catering to the whims of the market.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The Great Gatsby is an American classic following Jay Gatsby’s quest to win back his long-lost love by faking a successful life, depicting the struggles around love, relationships, societal standing, and consumerism of people in the “roaring” 1920s.
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1-Sentence-Summary: On Writing details Stephen King’s journey to becoming one of the best-selling authors of all time while delivering hard-won advice on the craft to aspiring writers.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Brave New World presents a futuristic society engineered perfectly around capitalism and scientific efficiency, in which everyone is happy, conform, and content — but only at first glance.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The Practice talks about ways to enhance your creativity, boost your innovation skills, upgrade your creative process, and most importantly, get disciplined in your practice to turn your hobby into a professional endeavor.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Untamed is an inspiring memoir of Glennon Doyle, a woman who found peace and inner strength by challenging life in all its areas, from love to parenting, personal growth, and work, after going through a powerful change that led her to discover crucial aspects about herself and allowed her to build a new life.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Eats, Shoots & Leaves offers a humorous, yet instructive overview of how punctuation rules play a huge part in our writing language and how today’s society has become overly relaxed about using the right punctuations marks, leaving grammar-concerned people like her frustrated.
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1-Sentence-Summary: Keep Going teaches us how to persist in creative work when our brain wants to take a million different paths, showing us how to harness our brain power in moments of innovation as well as tediousness.
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1-Sentence-Summary: The Hero With a Thousand Faces analyzes humankind from a mythological and symbolistic point of view to prove that all humans have similar core concepts written in them, such as the monomyth, which is a way of narrating stories that people from all over the world use to connect with one another.
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1-Sentence-Summary: How to Take Smart Notes is the perfect guide on how to improve your writing, reading, and learning techniques using simple yet little-known tips-and-tricks that you can implement right away to develop these skills.
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